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Japanese Course Enrolment Instructions 2015-2016

For your own registration process, please see the instructions specific to your student category. Please check this website again in the new year in order to confirm your enrolment procedures. The below procedures are subject to change.SUMMER 2015 EAS120Y1Y ENROLMENT INSTRUCTIONS

EAS120Y1Y Modern Standard Japanese I will be offered in the Summer session. EAS120Y1Y is designed for students with no background in Japanese. Please use the check list to self-assess whether this course is appropriate for you. If it is, please register on ROSI and when you have done so, please submit the EAS120Y Screening Form as soon as possible and before the first day of classes at the latest. The form will be available here when registration for the course opens on April 7th. If your checklist indicates that you should take the placement test, please register for the April Japanese Placement Test (see below).

RETURNING STUDENTS

Returning students with no background:Please enroll, or add yourself onto the waitlist for, EAS120Y1 and a tutorial section via ROSI as soon as you are able to. The course is a P* courses with priorities for first-year students and EAS students. First-year students and returning EAS students will be able to register during the priority enrolment period. If you are in those categories, and the course is full when you try to enrol, waitlists open on August 8 at 6 am. Enrolment will open to other students on August 13 at 6 am EDT. If you are unsure if you should take EAS120Y1 or EAS121H1, please use the “self checklist.” A mandatory online EAS120Y Screening Form must be submitted by August 25, 2015 or you will be removed from the course. The form will be available here on July 15. No placement test required.

Returning students with the minimum grade in the prerequisite wishing to take EAS220Y1, EAS320Y1, EAS460H1 or EAS461H1:EAS Majors/Specialists: Please enroll or add yourself onto the waitlist via ROSI as soon as you are able to.
Non-EAS majors/specialists should enroll through the department. The Japanese Enrolment Form will be available on July 15 and is due August 14. Submit your form as soon as possible since enrolments will be processed according to the date/time the form was received online. You will be added to the course or the departmental waitlist for the course by the department between August 15 and 18. Please ensure that there is a space available in your course load for the course. Failure to do so will jeopardize your placement in the course. For students with the prerequisite, no placement test is required.

Returning students who failed to reach the minimum grade in the prerequisite wishing to take EAS220Y1, EAS320Y1, EAS460H1 or EAS461H1:EAS Majors/Specialists: Please enroll or add yourself onto the waitlist via ROSI as soon as you are able to. You must also register for the early September placement test (see below for details). If you do not pass the placement test, you will be removed from the course.
Non-EAS Majors/Specialists: You must register for the early September placement test (see below for details). If you pass the placement test, you will be registered for the course, space permitting, or added to the waitlist by the department after the test. You do not need to also submit a Japanese Enrolment Form.

Returning students with background (informal or formal study of Japanese) but without the prerequisite:Returning students with background must write the mandatory placement test in April (April test details will be posted below at a later date). EAS Majors/Specialists who attended the April placement test and have been placed in a course: Please enroll or add yourself onto the waitlist via ROSI as soon as you are able to. Non-EAS Majors/Specialists should enroll through the department. The Japanese Enrolment Form will be available on July 15 and is due in mid-August (exact date TBA). Submit your form as soon as possible since enrolments will be processed according to the date/time the form was received online. You will be added to the course or the departmental waitlist for the course by the department (the date on which your enrolment will be processed will be posted here). Please ensure that there is a space available in your course load for the course. Failure to do so will jeopardize your placement in the course.

INCOMING STUDENTS

Incoming students with no background:Please enroll, or add yourself onto the waitlist for, EAS120Y1 and a tutorial section via ROSI as soon as your start time begins. If you are unsure if you should take EAS120Y1 or EAS121H1, please use the “self checklist.” After you have enrolled in the course or added yourself to the waitlist on ROSI (waitlist opens on August 8 at 6 am), you must submit a mandatory online EAS120Y Screening Form by August 25, 2015 or you will be removed from the course (the form will be available here on July 15). No placement test required. The form is available by clicking on EAS120Y Screening Form and should be completed after enrolling for the course or its waitlist on ROSI. Placements in the course are based on your enrolment on ROSI.
Incoming students with background (informal or formal study of Japanese):Students with any background at all who might qualify for EAS121H1 (if you are unsure if you should take EAS120Y1 or EAS121H1, please use the “self checklist“) or an upper-year course must take the placement test in September. (Submit the Japanese September Placement Test Form. You do not need to also submit a Japanese Enrolment Form). After the placement test, if you are placed in EAS121H1S, the department will confirm your enrolment on ROSI. If you are not placed in EAS121H1S, you will be removed from the course. If you are placed in an upper-year course (EAS220Y, EAS320Y, or EAS461H), the department will attempt to enrol you in the appropriate course after the placement test, space permitting, or add you to the departmental waiting list.

PLACEMENT TEST DETAILS

December Placement TestStudents who wish to take EAS121H1S Japanese I for Students with Prior Background must take the December placement test to confirm their enrolment or to maintain their place on the waitlist. The Japanese December Placement Test Form must be submitted online by November 30, 2014. The placement test will take place on:Friday, December 5 10 am – noon
Room Location: SS1085

Note: Failure to be placed in EAS121H1S via a placement test will result in removal from the course.

April Placement TestReturning students with any background who are hoping to take a Japanese language course in 2015-2016 must take the placement test on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 10 am – noon. To register for the Placement Test, please submit Japanese April Placement Test Form before March 31. Details will be sent to those who are registered for the test by noon on April 3. If you do have signed up, but don’t receive the details, please contact the department (416) 978-7260. Placement results will be posted on this webpage after the placement test.

September Placement Test
To register for the Placement Test, please submit Japanese September Placement Test Form by August 25, 2015. Placements will be based on a time of receipt of the online form. The Japanese Placement Test will take place in the week before classes begin. Details will be posted here. The placements will be posted on this webpage after the placement test.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The department celebrates two recent publications:
When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, by Janet Poole (Columbia University Press, 2014)
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis, by Yiching Wu (Harvard University Press, 2014)
For more information, please see People >> Publications.

Professor emerita Sonja Arntzen and Itō Moriyuki are pleased to announce the publication of their collaborative work:
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, translated and with an introduction by Sonja Arntzen and Itō Moriyuki. Columbia University Press, 2014.

Professor Yiching Wu has received the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association for his book, The Cultural Revolution at the Margins (Harvard University Press, 2014). The Award "rewards an especially meritorious work by a beginning scholar."